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Periods/Movements in English Literature
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1
Transcendentalism is grounded in the doctrine of...?
christianity
reason
intuition
buddhism
2
What decade were the Beats rebelling in/from?
1950s
1970s
1960s
1940s
3
Modernism is characterised by an experimentation with...?
form
voice
character
theme
4
The romantic hero follows his/her...?
previous education
brain
heart
parent's advice
5
Gothic literature, like Edgar Allen Poe, is Romantic literature?
True
False
6
Which author is not writing in the Neoclassic period?
Thomas Jefferson
Voltaire
Jeffrey Chaucer
John Locke
7
Victorian literature is the bridge between which two periods?
romantic and modern
neoclassic and realism
old english and renaissance
modern and postmodern
8
In naturalistic literature, characters are constrained by their...?
heredity and status
environment and class
heredity and environment
class and gender
9
According to postmodernists, texts have...
power to change
no inherent meaning
inherent value
inherent meaning
10
English Renaissance literature was influenced by...?
Aristotle
neoclassical texts
God
Greco-Roman Thinkers
11
Some Shakespeare plays are thought to actually be written by...?
shakespeare's lover
Francis Bacon
no one knows
Christopher Marlowe
12
During the Enlightenment, what was considered the highest faculty?
Love
Intellect
Judgement
Reason
13
Realism was a reaction against...?
the patriarchy
Romantic ideals
Medieval chivalry
class struggle
14
The Neoclassical period is also referred to as...?
Modernism
The Enlightenment
Medieval Times
The Renaissance
15
The Romantic period was a reaction against what?
growing consumerism
the rationality of Neoclassicism
all of the above
Industrial Revolution
16
For much of history, narrative stories have been performed or spoken (poetry) because...?
people didn't know how to write
of low literacy rates
because reading is lame
poetry is the best!
17
Which of these adjectives probably wouldn't describe modernistic literature?
hopeful
disillusionment
fractured
experimental
18
Medieval literature tends to...
all of the above
moral lessons
didactic content
be performed
19
What is arguably the most famous surviving old English text?
The Bible
Habeas Corpus
Romeo and Juliet
Beowulf
20
Which statement is false?
The Tudors loved theatre
Actors were considered vagrants
They banned religious content
the Tudors made standing theatre houses illegal
